reportoriallyadv.
/ˌrɛpɔːˈtɔːrɪəli/, /ˌriːpɔːˈtɔːrɪəli/, U.S. /ˌrɛpərˈtɔriəli/ As a newspaper reporter; in the manner or style of a newspaper reporter; (also) with regard to newspaper reporting.
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society > communication > journalism > [adverb] > reporting
reportorially1862
1862 N.-Y. Tribune 22 Apr. 1/4 At headquarters this morning—I mean those of General Heintzelman, to which I am reportorially attached—I found things quiet enough.
1901 Pop. Sci. Monthly Feb. 382 Unfortunately, the weather will not let the newspaper alone, and so..the newspaper must keep pegging away at it, editorially and ‘reportorially’.
1952 G. J. Nathan in H. Breit Writer Observed (1956) 249 I'd say these men achieved something significant: Dreiser seriously, Cabell humorously and satirically, Lewis reportorially and instinctively.
1972 J. G. Vermandel Last seen in Samarra xvii. 114 Safer than admitting to firsthand knowledge, but reportorially a flop, as he kept complaining bitterly to Alex.
2000 B. P. Solomon et al. Reading Room 97 Proust attended the trial, and his first attempt at a novel, Jean Santeuil, written during it, rather reportorially concerns the trial itself.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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